Chapter 5 3D Simulations 1
Chapter 5
3D Simulations
5.1 Step-by-Step: Beam Bracket
5.2 Step-by-Step: Cover of Pressure
Cylinder
5.3 More Details
5.4 More Exercise: LCD Display Support
5.5 Review
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.1 Beam Bracket 2
Section 5.1
Beam Bracket
[2] The bracket is
designed to withstand
Problem Description a load of 27 kN
uniformly distributed
over the seat plate.
[3] Fixed
[1] The support
bracket is at the
made of back
structural face.
steel.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.1 Beam Bracket 3
Techniques/Concepts
Engineering Data
Material Assignment
Stress Tool>Safety Factor
Structural Error
Mesh Control>MultiZone
3D Solid Elements
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.2 Cover of Pressure Cylinder 4
Section 5.2
Cover of Pressure
Cylinder
Problem Description
[3] Circularity
of this internal
[2] The cover surface is what
is designed to concerns us
hold up an most.
internal
pressure of 0.5
MPa.
[1] The cover
is made of an
engineering
plastic.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.2 Cover of Pressure Cylinder 5
Techniques/Concept
s
Add a new material in
<Engineering Data>
Isotropic Elasticity
Material Assignment
Loads>Pressure
Create a new
coordinate system
Cylindrical Coordinate
Systems
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.3 More Details 6
Section 5.3
More Details
Global Mesh Controls
Relevance Center
Relevance
Number of nodes/elements
Mesh Quality Metric
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.3 More Details 7
Mesh with MultiZone
Method
Generally, hexahedral elements are
more desirable than tetrahedral.
A simple idea of creating hexahedra is
to mesh faces (source) of a body with
quadrilaterals and then "sweep" along a
path up to other end faces (target) of
the body.
Not all bodies are sweepable.
The idea of <MultiZone> method is to
decompose a non-sweepable body into
several sweepable bodies, and then
apply <Sweep> method on each of
bodies.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.3 More Details 8
Coordinate Systems
[1] Type of
the
coordinate
When defining an environment system.
condition or a solution object [2] Origin.
by <Components>, you need
to refer to a coordinate system.
By default, <Global Coordinate
System> is used, which is a
[3] Axes.
Cartesian coordinate system.
To define a new coordinate
system, you need to define the
type of the coordinate system,
the origin, and the axes.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.3 More Details 9
Legend Controls [3] Double-
click to edit
value.
[1]
Increase/decr
ease contour
bands.
[5] Turn on/off
the date/time.
[2] The
divider can be
dragged.
[6] Display
[4] Number of independent
significant bands.
digits.
[7] Reset
the
legend.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.3 More Details 10
Adaptive Meshing
Workbench provides a tool to
automate the mesh
refinement until a user-
specified level of accuracy is
reached.
This idea is termed adaptive
meshing.
Internally, Workbench
exploits the structural errors
to help adjust the mesh, that
is, it refines the mesh size in
the area of large structural
errors.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.4 LCD Display Support 11
Section 5.4
LCD Display Support
Problem Description [2] The design
load (40 N)
applies on the
trough.
[1] The LCD
display support
is made of an
ABS plastic.
Chapter 5 3D Simulations Section 5.4 LCD Display Support 12
Techniques/Concept
s
Loads>Bearing Load
